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Jan 18, 2016
Boku dake ga Inai Machi is a Mystery/Psychological manga kind of rough.
The story revolves around Satoru, a guy who get sometimes carried back in time when something bad is going to happen. With this, he gets to prevent accidents, save people and above all clear an unsolved criminal case that he lived through during his childhood.
If you are looking for a masterpiece you will be disappointed; when you read a Mystery story you expect most events to be connected as a big picture to get a grandiose conclusion, instead BokuMachi has a tons of unnecessary elements and events building up left and right
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that most of the time doesn't matter at all. Some parts looks rushed, characters get introduced but don't get any attention at all, you feel like there is missing elements in the story and wonder how much was planned in advance.
On the good part, the manga is quite a smooth read, it has a lot of events occurring, the relation between some characters are interesting and the overall winter-ish dark mood is nice. You watch the story unroll with the main character's thought and at times, feel a bit happy or sad for him. It has enough elements to make you want to keep reading it.
For an ongoing manga, I personally did not get captivated enough to quiver or get emotional. The story is fine and has potential, but lacks something to make it as appealing as it could be. Hopefully the manga will get better and more intense in the future !
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Sep 2, 2012
The adaptation Sword Art Online is truly an overwhelming spring of enjoyment to me.
At this time, I've seen the 10 episodes available and read the first volume of the LN. Since SAO hasn't been completed yet, reviews may lack of accuracy regarding Story/Art/Sound/Character so I'll mostly focus on the Enjoyment as far as it has reached and a short talk about the adaptation from the LN (sorry if things get mixed).
Sword Art Online is a Medieval/Fantasy/Adventure genre that exhibit its charm through landscapes, short-quest stories and a MMORPG reference. As a former hardcore-player of this category, SAO has created a sweet and burning nostalgia :
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from the first sensation of discovering the game and killing our first mob, to the latter of being the worst player farming day and night to receive the prestige and amazement of being part of the strongest group. This, and the hardship of players to reach the top, whilst giving up on friends, chat and party to focus on getting the experience is, no matter the differences, how I saw myself through Kirito.
To me, Sword Art Online will achieve something Zero no Tsukaima, Erementar Gerad, Fairy Tail and many other anime failed to do : create the best fantasy plot and circumstances to bring life to a main Hero.
CHARACTERS : 9.5/10
Kirito - the main protagonist, is a character with the heroic allure : kind, smart, confident and strong-willed. He's young and yet, he will keep going and easily learn from mistakes. That's how perfect he is, how unrealistic this show is, but how inspired he has risen me : Kirito is like a heroic role model to me.
Asuna - I'll skip through this one, Asuna is a cliche "bit of tsundere". I'd say I've fallen for her (like I did for so many but that's another story...). Anyway, she's a cliche perfect waifu, nothing that amazing.
Anyone else - I've read a lot of complain about how plain any other characters are. Again, I'm not reviewing the lack of realism (anime aren't focusing on realistic characters), the story is going straight to the main characters, any secondary is just mixed in to alter the main characters behavior.
ART : 8.5/10
As for the main characters, it's perfect ; secondary are fine as well but some of them should have been polished (I'm referring to Cradil and Heatcliff's body that are probably almost the same)
SOUND : 8.5/10
The Opening is awesome every time I'm listening to it ; The Ending was okay and the Seiyu did a really nice job.
Background Soundtracks (OST) are great but lack of variety. "Acts sounds" were nicely chosen (Asuna turned so fluffy haha)
STORY (until episode 9) : 8/10
The concept is fresh, but probably revisited (I haven't watched ./hack though). I have that bitter feeling "I've thought of this kind of story so many times" : it's absolutely not that original at all.
The trail didn't follow a typical path, with its "2 years time-skip", the story went ahead and completely erased the obvious and unnecessary details (I wish I could see a farming session though). Some side-stories created great opportunities to introduce the main character before the main plot and added a spicy Role Playing side-quest reference.
Even so, I was really looking forward a story like this one, most likely the best kind of stories I may enjoy.
ENJOYMENT : 10/10
ADAPTATION : 5/10
SAO anime didn't perfectly follow the Light-Novel sequence, unfortunately it didn't goes so well (reminding past/flash back scene were awful), some consistency "mistakes" were also made during that trade (it may be done on purpose to afford "clin d'oeil" to readers of the book though). A bunch of precious information and details were skipped as well. Many scenes were getting awful and useless, created bad impression difference with the LN (may be subjective).
However, the sensation to watch it animated with voices and sounds was amazing and exciting.
(btw I've watched 8 episodes first then started reading the LN)
OVERALL :
As for me, this anime is my current favorite, it'll keep shaking my mind for at least a few month.
I'd definitely recommend Sword Art Online if you're fan of MMORPG, Fantasy, Adventure and Heroic melted with a love comedy that may create a small pain in your chest...
The anime isn't as great and perfectly-made as some other recent anime, but it didn't need to be that great ; the flow of actions and excitement is what was important and they completely filled that branch for me.
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VRMMORPG or Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Game... I wonder if something like this will exist someday...
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Mar 10, 2012
Disappointment :
The movie saddened me from the bottom of my heart...
I'm a fan of SnO (the Manga), and I've watched the anime too.
I wasn't expecting a movie of SnO (even though I've heard of it) so it was quite a surprise to discover it !
The idea to have a movie on Hiroyi's Arc, rather than an anime season, was really great and I loved it : that is, until I watch it...
Story :
It didn't- It did not follow the manga's storyline : what was great about the manga (consistancy and emotions) was badly lacking.
/SPOILER/ As for example (wait is that Spoiler ? Let's say it
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- The ending : Hiyori died (actually, they resurrected her out of nowhere EVEN THOUGH they took 10 minutes to make it "looks like" she was going to die)
Is that wrong ?
The resurrection... OH GOD PLEASE the consistency ! I'd have let it goes if Hiyori really died.
Sakurai flying in Ikaros's Aegis... c'moooooonnn...
- The bed time scene : Nymph was talking about how badly she felt without a master : if by any chances you read the manga, you'd understand that
Nymph want a master -> Nymph is ordered by Sakurai to hack Hiyoi -> Nymph becomes overpowered and succeed
were related. But in the movie, it was not, but they still approved to show this scene.
- They forget : they mixed everything apart (was it to make the movie longer ?), Sakurai wasn't affected by the memory loss (just some head hurt...)
In the manga it was much more rational :
Sakurai was affected but still had a few minutes left to run after Ikaros and Nymph. When in the movie, he started the run after one day (the purpose was irremediably less important)
Moreover, it was more emotional too :
Hiyori woke up right after her death and Sugata could ask her "Who are you" in a way more important.
Overall there are still a lot of bad consistancy that could have been avoided (Sugata's reaction when he saw Hiyori too, but since I forgot how the second season went, I'm not sure if he saw her at Synapse)
The Art, Sound, Character seemed legit, I don't have anything else to say.
But I'm quite curious about their alteration : was it to make it appears better or worse than the manga ? Why didn't they just use the original work ?
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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